BringBackOrton

If your biggest problem is having so many star players you’re concerned about paying them all, you’re in your Super Bowl window and it’s a good problem to have.

Millions and millions my friend. The only two rules in the NFL is that there will always be more cap to spend and more draft picks to use.

We can try. There’s certainly a reasonable fear that guy won’t make it to 22. There’s also a reasonable fear we could trade up for the wrong guy. Or stand pat and take the wrong guy. It’s the draft. That’s how it goes.

What is going on? Bills fans sweat the cap now more than ever and we are in the best cap situation at the best time in NFL. It's bizarre. Our cap is fine. We will re-sign Tre, Allen and Edmunds COMFORTABLY.

'"Robert Woods isn't worth that kind of money the Rams gave him" He has the 27th highest WR cap hit in the NFL now.

Standardizes the process as well, no? If the questions are always the same between candidates, it limits, "I had a good conversation about stuff that interests me" bias.

Fair enough. I just think they will have similar careers. I don't see Higgins producing all that well at the NFL level.

Tee didn't run in the combine presumably because he is going to run in the high 4.5's - 4.6's and he and his agent know it. Big and slow is no way to gt drafted in the first round of the NFL.

This is all spot on. A deep WR draft means that there are a lot of players with a Robert Woods-type ceiling. Fine players, but not game-breakers. We don't need fine players as much as we need game-breakers. We need a guy that BB is gonna make Gilmore shadow all game. A guy where the safety is rolling over every time he goes deep. That's how you get Josh the 1 on 1's that are easy to spot for first downs.

Higgins will be Devin Funchess.

I'm agreeing with you, that's consistent. Those dudes all failed.

Okay, so you think he wasn't worth the money and you do what, exactly? Trade him? Let him walk? Is letting an MVP candidate QB walk in FA for nothing sustainable for success and I missed than era of the NFL? My point is that it's too early to consider this entire Rams era a failure. You could be right. But the bottom line is "sustaining" and never making it to the SB or winning the SB is the same as going all in and never winning the SB. Either way, you don't achieve the ultimate goal. So really, what does it matter? I also look forward to you calling the SB appearing Bills failures next year.

Do you pay attention to the NFL? Goff threw 32 TD's to 12 picks, QBed the 2nd best offense in the NFL and took his team to the Super Bowl. You don't think he earned franchise QB money? Is that a joke? Todd Gurley was the best running back in football at the time he inked his deal. Were the Rams suppose to expect he would degenerate in his knees? You are having trouble distinguishing between justifiable versus good deals in hindsight. NFL teams don't have crystal balls, you know. If Josh Allen is an MVP candidate, gets paid, and then plays worse, his contract was still "justifiable." I look forward to your apology when the Rams win 10 games next year and contend. The Bills should consider hiring the best coach and greatest QB of all time. They make all your decisions look okay. Trading up, trading down, not picking due to cheating, etc.

Yes.

I just do not see it. Higgins is nice but Lamb does everything. Higgins is a 700 yard season player with a bad QB, Lamb still puts up 1000.

Hey man, if you wanna call Goff, Kelly, Donald, Bruce Smith, Thurman, and Gurley all failures because they didn’t win a SuperBowl, that’s fine with me. That makes sense.

The Rams have $22M in cap space this season. Every single one of their contracts were justifiable. If there’s no participation trophy for losing in a Super Bowl, then why do you give Kelly and those boys credit for going back to lose 3 more times? Is there a participation trophy if you try really really hard over and over and still lose? Sounds to me like they should be called failures too. If the Rams go 10-6 next year and make the playoffs, but don’t win the Super Bowl, does your position change? Do teams that trade first round picks need to actually win the Super Bowl, not just contend, for it to be justified?

Higgins > Lamb? Sacrilege.

Torpedo their future success? They missed the playoffs one year. The franchise hasn’t folded. The Rams were 1/2 teams with a chance to win the Super Bowl in 2018. Every other team, including the Bills, had a zero percent chance of winning the Super Bowl, because they didn’t get there. That’s a success for the Rams, period. If the Bills traded next years first and then lost in the Super Bowl, would you be calling them a failure?

If losing in the Super Bowl is a failure, why is Kelly in the Hall of Fame?

I had a interview like this recently. Interviewers blinded to your application asking about a time you demonstrated leadership etc.

Everyone thought the Rams were dumb for trading up for Goff year one and got really quiet years two and three.

Ideal draft would be trading up to 14 to get Lamb and then trading up into the second for an edge player.

I don't remember that. I do remember saying the Jags have won more playoff games than the Bills have since that trade. It's a nice little fact the "LOL Jags" crowd needed reminding. Especially when they were trying to paint the Jags trading for Dareus as a bad move, when they got a talented D-lineman for a sixth rounder to add to a team only a few minutes away from playing in the Super Bowl, which is much closer than the Bills have sniffed since 1993. Perspective is nice sometimes.

I suppose if I was, I’d have mentioned something about trends since that trade.